It’s no stretch to say the song “changed music forever,” as NME proclaimed in 2018. Not that New Order went into “Blue Monday” with any such goals.

New Order released their first new album in a decade in 2015 – reason to celebrate indeed. However, ‘Blue Monday’, a track that 30 years on, remains as powerful as ever, will always be ...

New Order have released a new ‘Blue Monday’-themed t-shirt in support of mental health charity CALM. The new piece of merchandise is the work of Factory Records graphic designer Peter Saville ...

Rhino recently released the definitive edition of Low Life. Post-1994, Blue Monday is by far the biggest New Order track with chart sales of 1,202,345 (Blue Monday 1988 is on 42,262).

New Order's Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Bernard Sumner, and Peter Hook in the 1980s. (Photo: Steve Rapport/Getty Images) New Order’s “Blue Monday” was released 40 years ago, on March 7 ...

But Blue Monday, which opened with a now-famous programmed kick drum salvo (shamelessly borrowed from Donna Summer’s 1979 song Our Love), became the biggest-selling 12” single of all time.

New Order’s “Blue Monday” came out 40 years ago to day on March 7, 1983. The single, which is one of the best-selling 12″ singles of all time, has had a long shelf life, and today the band ...

All dates are listed below. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Blue Monday,” New Order have made some special merch, including t-shirts, a hoodie, and a code pin.

New Order. Image: Press New Order are celebrating 40 years of “Blue Monday” with a range of special merchandise. ORDER NOW: Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut ...

But there’s so much more beyond “Blue Monday.” Read our list below: — “Dreams Never End” (1981) New Order were still underneath the shadow of Joy Division in 1981, a hard shackle to shake.

For New Order, whose iconic ‘80s hit “Blue Monday” has gone viral, I have just one question: How does it feel?